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Believe it or not....

I'm moving again. July 1. Echo Park. We sign the lease tomorrow.

Enter the contest, Chicagoans, win a pair of Tix!

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Moving Pix

I just sent a comment into this website -- because, yes dear reader, Gordon and I have been looking at apartments in Los Angeles. Although we love the Brewery, and we love our roommate Rick, it's time to be on our own.

Do you think they'll take me pictures/comment?

http://www.lemondrop.com/2010/05/19/p...

Just Kids

I just finished reading Patti Smith's gorgeous memoir, Just Kids. And I found it ridiculous inspirational. I've never been a huge Smith fan. I came late to the party re: Horses and Easter. I liked her all right, but I was too busy with Joni Mitchell in my teenage years and Madonna, DeeLite, and Nirvana in my twenties. But this book reminds me of what I found when I moved to New York in 1988 and what thrilled and excited me about the New York avant garde.

In 1988, it was still possible to ...

A Prodigal Daughter of Detroit

I left Detroit in 1979 when my mother married her second husband. He had a house in Libertyville, Illinois, an area that my mother and I would quickly come to despise (it is the only place in which I have encountered Anti-Semitism or was made to feel different because I was Jewish. Often, I should mention, this was from friends and relations of my stepfather and not the town at large, but they are, in my memories, merged.) After Libertyville, we moved to Northbrook, an area made famous by...

Cup of Jo

I discovered this blog today, and I'm obsessed. Does anyone know this girl?

http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/

Too Shy To Stop

I did this interview so long ago that I'd completely forgotten about it until Laryssa reposted it today. I love that photograph on her blog -- do you think Gordon and I can find a little cottage with a sun room like that?
xo.

http://www.tooshytostop.com/2010/04/1...

ELLE.COM's Summer Reading Roundup!

We made the Top Ten!

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Where You Can Hear This Book Aloud:

I love readings. Love.

If you're in New York, LA, or Chicago, come hear excerpts from my book, No Place Like Home, and get the damn thing signed and stay for informal conversation and mingling.

New York City: Mc Nally Jackson books, June 16.
http://mcnallyjackson.com/

Chicago: Borders Bookstore, TBD.
http://www.borders.com/online/store/Home

Los Angeles: Book Soup, June 22.
http://www.booksoup.com/

A play about a bar being read in an actual bar!

If you're in LA on Sunday February 21, come here my play OUT OF THE WATER at the Mandrake Bar! FREE. 6pm.

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